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Sunday, 3 January 2010

My Love Affair With Ireland by Veronica Hall

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84944-019-6
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In the early summer of 2008, Veronica Hall and her husband, Jeff, were all set to enjoy the glories of Sicily until, that is, the unexpected acquisition of a young and delightfully bonkers Irish Setter, by the name of Misty, completely changed everything and, in so doing, quite unwittingly opened up a doorway into magic and enchantment and a beauty of unsurpassable splendour.

Having to go back to the drawing board, Ireland was eventually chosen as the alternative to Sicily and from day one, the love affair with this wonderful country and it’s equally wonderful people was born and subsequently evolved into the lifelong affair that it is now.

This wee tale follows the journey of these two ordinary people and their one rather extraordinary dog (The Intrepid Trio) as they fall, progressively, more and more under the spell, the sheer magic that is Ireland.

Follow in their footsteps and who knows ... maybe you, too, will fall in love, just as they did.

Four to Teen - 5 Tales for Young Readers by Tony Lambert

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A collection of 5 totally different and very imaginative, fun short stories mainly for the four to teen age range to be enjoyed and to encourage the young reader.

Story 1 - Come and meet Captain McClonkey, the old Scottish 'biker' and find out what happens when he returns to his old wooden dockside cabin inhabited by 'Gargantula' the enormous spider and the millions of 'beasties' who have taken up residence.

Story 2 - Meet young Kirsty and a very worried Father Christmas and see how together they solve the big global problem of the disappearing starlight.

Story 3 - Striker the Buzzard and his friends are ready to defend their territory and stop a group of local villagers from stealing 'The Old Marsh'. Their effective plan of action soon puts an end to any further developments.

Story 4 - The inhabitants of Planet 'Terra' are a strange lot but how do they cope when the Astra dust from Outer Space invades their world.

Story 5 - The 'Boxes of Temptation' are washed overboard into the sea from a huge broken container vessel beached on East Devon pebble banks after a horrendous storm. See how one of these boxes and its tempting 'booty' lead Johnny and others into serious trouble.

Long John Silver's Magical Bicycle Bell by Tomas Stone

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84944-017-2
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Whilst scanning the sand on a Dorset beach with his metal detector, John Silver (Long John) to his friends uncovers Aladdin’s Magic Lamp. After floating in the sea for two thousand years, the lamp has become a battered relic of what it used to be. When John polishes his find to summon up the genie, the slave of the lamp cannot get past the twisted spout.

Thinking that the lamp is just another useless piece of junk, John’s mother throws it away for recycling. During the recycling process, the genie becomes miniaturized and the lamp is recreated as a bicycle bell.

Although John doesn’t own a bicycle, he feels compelled to buy the bell when he sees it displayed in a shop window. When he rings the bell, a tiny genie appears.

John’s first two wishes turn out to be miniature replicas of what he had asked for. His disappointment grows when the genie informs him that the lamp must be restored to its former glory before he can grant full sized wishes. The genie then tells John, that the only person with the power to turn the bicycle bell back into a lamp is Merlin the Magician.

Seated on a magic carpet with the genie on his shoulder, John travels back twenty eight years in time where he meets his mother and father and several of their friends who agree to accompany him on his great adventure to find Merlin.

Bony Willy The Naked Viking by Tomas Stone

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84944-006-6
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Set in the ancient town of Paxley. The story follows the humorous misadventures of male stripper Willy Fluck, after he accepts a booking to perform at Stanton Hospital. Warned not to touch any of the experimental X-Ray equipment, he foolishly enters on of the units to put change into his Viking clothes. The results of his stupidity become transparently clear, when he becomes a walking, talking, glowing skeleton.

To make good his escape from the hospital, he is forced to steal a hearse with a corpse in a coffin in the back. With no way of knowing how long the effects of the X-rays are going to last Willy seeks refuge in an old abandoned mill, where he is befriended by three drunken tramps. Unfortunately, they only add to his problems. Full of compassion and cheap wine, they decide to bury him in the local cemetery.

Leaving his new found friends lying at the bottom of the grave they had intended for him, Willy decides to go home to his wife. To his relief his flesh returns before he gets there.

When the stolen hearse is found abandoned at St Luke's cemetery with an extra corpse in the coffin. Detective Segeant Gibbon and Detective Constable Sneed are sent to investigate. Before they are able to get their teeth into the case, they are informed that the Reverence Peter Cameron-Jones has been abducted from St. Luke's church.

When Gibbon and Sneed discover that another priest had disappeared frin tge sane church in similar circumstances a hundred years ago they decide to investigate strange happenings at the Devil's Folly which stands in the shadows of Paxley Grange.

To hide the fact that he keeps changing into a skeleton, often at inappropriate times. Willy buys a rubber head and a clown suit as a disguise. Things go from bad to worse for bony Willy, when his pregnant wife is kidnapped by crazy Angela Rossington and her gang of Satanists who intend to sacrifice her and her unborn child in an attempt to evoke and humanize the Devil.

Heirs to the Kingdom - Book Two - The Lost Sword of Carnac

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84944-016-5
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Robin John Morgan runs a website dedicated to all things 'Heirs to the Kingdom', why not go there and have a look! - click here.

Having accepted his destiny, and left Loxley to prevent his enemy from stealing the crown of England, Robbie now has to take stock and decided his next move. His brother Billy is now his enemy, and the true fight for the woodland realm has begun in earnest.

Mason Knox has been stopped, but not defeated. Robbie and his group must now rush back to Loxley in preparation for the backlash of the forces of those bearing the red dragon. A dark force is rising in the north, and soon they will face some of their greatest challenges, as Knox retaliates with brutal force, and events spiral out of control.

With Rune, he must prepare to seek the lost sword, with no idea of where to begin looking. The pressure rises and the tension builds, as Rune’s new powers appear to drain her of strength, and she senses others of power moving towards them.

Who is the owner of the Sword of Knowledge? Where is the lost sword of honour, and who will wield it? The silent stones guard the answers, as Loxley becomes the focus of everything. Many answers lie hidden under the veil of the coming of the age of dreams, and Robbie has yet to find them.

This is the second part of the series ‘Heirs to the kingdom,’ and a superb companion to book one. With everything now in place, the story really begins, and from page one, it twists and turns with excitement, magic, and adventure. Filled with humour and some gripping moments, this is a wonderful follow up to the Bowman of Loxley, from adventure writer Robin John Morgan.

Heirs to the Kingdom - Book 1 - The Bowman of Loxley

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84944-003-5
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Robin John Morgan runs a website dedicated to all things 'Heirs to the Kingdom', why not go there and have a look! - click here.


A young boy of natural ability with a long bow is confronted with his destiny from a distant past, as he has to face overwhelming odds. With a close group of friends, he tries to unite a Britain torn apart by the deadly virus the red death.
Set in the future of 2038, in a world that is changing, he sets out on a journey filled with the surprises of a mystical past, as everyone around him discovers talents that they were unaware of.

This is a thought provoking and at times humorous tale with some very heart warming moments. It has a contemporary feel that highlights many issues of life today, and the links we all hold to our past.
This book will leave you thinking long after it has been put down. A thrilling adventure ideally suited for teenagers and the older reader of Fantasy and Adventure stories.

Part one of an ongoing series of related stories by author Robin John Morgan.

Streets of Blood by Michael Yarwood

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84944-011-0
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Another year has dragged by, the German occupation since the failed 1943 Jewish Ghetto uprising in Warsaw was still as strong as ever. The Polish resistance alongside the Polish Home Army commanded by Bor Komorowski decided to launch a surprise attack on the German occupiers. On August 1st 1944 an Home Army of some 45,000 poles including civilians and resistance launched a planned attack on the Nazis to take back the Old Town District. This action resulted in the massacre of almost every living, man, woman and child in the most horrendous and brutal ways possible. Hitler wanted to chow the rest of Europe the consequences of making a stand against the Third Reich. The city of Warsaw was razed to the ground in retaliation. A novel of fiction loosely based on facts of betrayal, murder and in house fighting by all factions concerned forced Tomas Budzyn to lead his resistance unit away from the Home Army, to fight their own war, bringing their dark story out into the light.

Something For Everyone by Mary Sinton

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84944-012-7
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What's written on these pages
Is for children 2 to 10 in ages
Listening or reading, you'll enjoy
Whether, you're a girl or boy
Fun and learning lie within
Just open up and begin

Saturday, 2 January 2010

A Life Less Known by Ken Fryer

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84944-004-2
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The story trails the journey of main character Rebecca (Becky) from teenage rebellion to petty crime to full time criminal activities. Framed by a local criminal overlord her partner in crime is sent to prison. Becky is duped by her lover and sold onto an Eastern European people trafficking gang who control local prostitution. The police detective handling the case is also on the payroll of the gang that are holding her. Becky’s sister (Ruth) is the only person concerned at her disappearance and tracks down and enlists the help of their estranged father, a retired MI5 officer to help find her.
Becky meanwhile escapes from the gang, killing one of the gang members in the process, this triggers a terrifying series of attempts not only on her life, but also that of her close family.

Change and Changeability by John Scully

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84944-009-7
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As Jack Russell, a newly-retired academic Ceramist, attempts to write a novel he learns that his younger sister, Susan, is separating from her husband, Martin, and setting up house with a young painter, Mary. This change greatly surprises him and his wife Jill. They subsequently meet Mary whom they find quite charming. Martin seeks their sympathy.
The two themes of writing a novel and dealing with a family problem dominate Jack’s life as he and Jill go about their normal life, meeting friends and visiting relatives. Progress with his book is slow. He finds himself continually distracted when he tries to write, unable to avoid thinking instead about various writers, about when he was young, and about the consequences of ageing.
Martin is arrested for sexually assaulting young children. He later commits suicide before his trial. In considering this tragic sequence of events Jack sees his failure to understand the breakup of Susan and Martin as typical of much in life: one never knows the full story of anything. There are always gaps. Things are never constant: situations and people’s attitudes are forever changing. That is also true of novels. Such reflections result in his feeling optimistic about finishing his novel.
Change and Changeability presents a very sympathetic portrait of a warm, modern, ageing man, engagingly uncertain about many things.

Megan and the Baby Hedgehogs by Janice Fletcher

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84944-014-1
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Megan Bailey is 5 years old and loves animals. She has a lovely Cat, Pippa, but still longs for more animals. To her delight she finds some new friends in her garden one day ...

White Noise Is Heavenly Blue by Tabbie Browne

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84944-013-4
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This gripping tale of the continual fight against the forces of good and evil, holds many twists until the end. It makes the reader look again at old beliefs and wonder how much truth they contain.

Jenny's mother is watching her and recalling the turmoil in her life to date.
The child was always quiet and satisfied with being in her own little world watching her 'colours' and hearing her noises.

That was until she met Matthew Gavrielle, who educated her in things beyond her initial understanding. He drew together the concepts of space, religion, astronomy and reincarnation into one package making her realise the ultimate existance required no bodily form.

He taught her to speed travel, warning her not to let her light line be severed and how to perform thgouht transportation in an instant. Here she was attacked by evil forces taking many guises.

Her work mate Mrs Randle, a so called medium, meddling with the unknown, unwittingly opened a portal allowing certain evil forces to penetrate the earth.

The demon Zargot from the space area Zargon was as adept at thought transportation as the good powers on Eden, Matthew's space area.

As her mind was guided, Jenny realised she was something special but the information was fed to her in small doses.
They soon realise Zargot is mustering as many evil entities to direct them at a precise target. - her.
Matthew explains that she is the daughter of the Powerful One, the Supreme Being on Eden and she once had been Zargot by her cunning and force and he was planning revenge.

As Matthew relates about the hybrids bred in secret by Zargs occupying human form, Jenny's mind is triggered into remembering she has a score to settle with the fiend. These creatures have been created from human aggs and Zargs sperm and resemble the aliens encountered on abduction.

Due to interception, she was mis-positioned on her seventh visit to Earth and the trauma had wiped the knowledge. She now used her wiles to trap Zargot and summons forces, also with a score to settle to aid her...

By the close of this part of the story, she may have appeared to have outwitted him but the hybrids remain undetected waiting...
It is never - the end.

Thursday, 31 December 2009

Create Your Desires and Fulfil Your Dreams by Donald Upton

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84944-015-8
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The book describes clearly and concisely a simple/practical method of

“Being who you want to be and creating what you desire”.

Although you probably don’t realise it, you are already creating to a large extent the life you have. By understanding the mechanism by which this occurs, you will be in a position consciously to

“Create your desires and fulfil your dreams”.

This small book provides you with an understanding of how you can achieve this. Use it to create or improve relationships, to bring important things into your life, to achieve a personal goal, to receive advice, to create financial abundance for yourself, to create your ideal career or improve the one you have or to manifest other desires you may have - in short,

to have the life you want.

The necessary background information/explanation embraces the nature of man and the inter-relationship of his body, mind and spirit, in accordance with the ancient spiritual system known as Huna (which has largely been corroborated by modern psychology and psychic science). The practitioners of this system, the Kahunas (mainly of Hawaii) were very gifted people, able to produce such miracles as instant and distant healing, fire-walking, weather control and changing a person’s future.

The book also expands on a simple philosophy for living life with integrity and joy.

The Plays Britannica by David and Noelle Boulton

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84944-010-3
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These plays have been written in 16th Century English.

We do hope that you enjoy them.

A blend of fiction and non-fiction:

Chatterton:
The Play is based on the life and death of Thomas Chatterton. His worth as a poet was only recognised to any profound degree .... after his early death. May that dear poet be at peace.

The Tragedies (a comedy):
This play is based on the life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest writer. It is a tale of what may have been and of what was. It is a blend of fiction and non-fiction.

Nine Days of the Nightingale:
This play is based on the life of Lady Jane Grey. It is a tale of what may have happened, of the despair, of the love, of the sorrow - that may have marked the lives of so many who danced upon the chessboard of that time.

The Fields of the Golden Cloth:
This play is based on the event of King Henry VIII meeting the French King. It is a tale of what might have been, what may have been, during that brief time of the field of the cloth of gold -- when two rival Kings strove to outdo each other.

A Welsh Ghost Story by David and Noelle Boulton

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This is a newly created Celtic Ghost Story that should be read whilst sitting beneath a tartan blanket, preferably on a dark and stormy night, while a fire blazes, and a horseshoe hangs over the door - to keep out the ghoulies.

The year is 1846. Heathwood House rests in the valley region near to the Welsh town of Cardiff. An ominous housekeeper, Mrs Taurntan, a truly terrifying gardener, Mr Edwards, the woman in the crimson walking-cloak, Miss. Williams, a vain and fickle neighbour, Lady Filchmore, and the master of Heathwood House, who is dying of consumption, Terrance.

Heathwood ..... all await the arrival of the woman who has lost her father to the disease that the potato gamine in Ireland has caused. - She is to be the master's bride.

Are the inhabitants of Heathwood House becoming trapped within its very walls? Are the living being driven mad by forces that permeate the very air of Heathwood House? Have the sorrows of Terrance Heathwood's ancestors ... started to come back to life within the walls of Heathwood House? Will the living survive within the walls of Heathwood House?

Put on your slippers, make some tea, and enjoy this old-fashioned, gothic-style, Celtic ghost-story ... if you like ... if you dare. Aye, and don't forget to have a tin of biscuits handy; that's optional, of course, buy it's always comforting to have a tin of biscuits close by!

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Wednesday, 30 December 2009

Telling Tales by Beverley Raw

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84944-000-4
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The book is a selection of 5 short stories, covering a range of genre, so there's likely to be something for most people!

Telling Tales : In the middle of them was an enormous pot - a cauldron of some sort he supposed, maybe some poor clot was going to end up in it! He was glad he'd come, this was certainly going to be worth seeing ...

Rendezvous : Ralph and Pamela were petrified frozen to the spot, completely helpless, staring at the screen like a pair of rabbits caught in headlights.

Daddy's Little Camper : Sarah glanced across at Jake, now snoring, mouth wide open, lolling in the sun, his towel discarded on the floor: drunk, crude and irresponsible but hopelessly, impossibily. infuriatingly sexy and ... exciting! Her throat was dry and a lump was stopping her from swallowing; her head was spinning: she was a moth with responsibilities, so why did she feel like an immature sixteen-year-old with a mammoth crush.

Old Beaky : When she lookedup, she saw about to touch her on the shoulder, was the Plague Doctor; eyes red and menacing in the grotesque mask.

The Looking Glass : A huge red stain had now soaked into the pink and white rug; a few drips were still emanating from the frame, but the image or whatever it was he'd seen in the glass had gone.


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